Live Adam Morley - Vocals, dobro
Sagat Guirey - acoustic guitar
Carmen Phelan - bass guitar
*** "The one-time Adam Morley packs a lifetime of travelling the bars of the world into a debut that might just as easily be from 1928 as 2008. Bluesy Dobro guitar slides around the edge of the Londoner's whiskey-flavoured vocals, while echoes of Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt and Bob Frank play tag in lyrics that evoke images of friends and lovers lost and found on the road."
"Will you believe? Potential new star for Blues fans to worship"
*** "The fabulous Work reminded me of when I saw Seasick Steve on the Jools Holland show as it starts with him tapping the beat out with his foot, and then some excellent Dobro sounds came flooding out of the speaker, followed by his smoky worn out sounding voice…great song and magnificent musicianship."
"The musical equivalent of a stiff but excellent quality drink. Cheers" - Blues In London
"Naughty Jack ... this years Seasick Steve" - Blues Matters
"Simplistically beautiful, honestly gritty, silkily workmanlike, 'Good Times' by Naughty Jack is a thing of absolute pleasure to just sit and enjoy - superb!!" - Toxic Pete
"'Good Times' is a very amiable listen and admirably down to earth; it's also true to himself" - Whisperin & Hollerin
"Naughty Jack, aka Adam Morley, has created an album of timeless blues progressions that wouldn't have been out of place in the 1920s deep south of America" - New-Noise.net
"A charming album from start to finish" - SoundsXP
"The album is warm, mellow and laid-back. It is very pleasant and, despite an obviously prodigious musical ability, unpretentious" - The Music Magazine
"What the Pogues are to Punk/Folk the same has to be said about Naughty Jack and Blues" - Street Voice
"Worthy of being amongst anyones record collection" - Subba-Cultcha
"One night, when your woman's left you, your friends aren't answering their phones, and the corner shop's out of mid-priced whiskey; you'll need an album like this" - Tasty Fanzine
After a thumping set at The Boogaloo last month, Naughty Jack and friends will now be playing the first Sunday of every month.
GQ described The Boogaloo as "the sweetest little juke-joint in the world!" and Naughty Jack agrees. The next gig is Sunday 1st June, 8pm, The Boogaloo, 312 Archway Rd, next to Highgate Tube. Free Entry
Listen to Naughty Jack's live session for the James Whale Show on TalkSport. The hour long session has been edited down to 30mins with 4 songs and lots of conversation. The show went out live on Sunday 6th April 2008 on TalkSport, the UK's largest commercial radio station.
Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, Josh Graves, Lynard Skynard, Howlin Wolf, Union Station, The Band, Sol Hoopii, Bob Brozman, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jerry Douglas, Johnny Cash, Ralph Stanley, Ricky Skaggs, Tony Rice, Professor Longhair, Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Neil Young
Sounds Like
Willy Mason, Josh Graves, Neil Young, Bob Brozman, Tom Waits, Devendra Banhart, Olu Dara, Elliot Smith, Xavier Rudd
Naughty Jack's debut Album Good Times is in stores on 19th May 2008. However, the album is available right here, right now direct from the record label, Wang Dang Doodle.
Naughty Jack chose not to become a preacher like his father (and father before him). Instead, he fixed upon the life of an itinerant musician. Along his travels, he has played as part of a Venezuelan Waltz band, a traditional Trinidadian "Parang" Christmas band, and is a familiar face at all night sessions in some of the smallest pubs in the world, on the west coast of Ireland. He even managed to pick himself up an Irish/Trinidadian wife somewhere along the road.
He was forced to bid a hasty farewell to his much-loved guitar, when it met its splintery end at the hot embrace of a concertina elbow on an Amsterdam tram. A staunch atheist, he took it as an omen; turning his back on the guitar, he bought himself dobro from the states as his new travelling companion. People have been asking him why he plays with the guitar lying down on his lap ever since.
Naughty Jack has served his apprenticeship as a performer and entertainer well; he has headlined top-secret Cambridgeshire festival "Farmageddon" (recently featured in the Guardian) since its conception in 2003. It was here that Adam Morley was first christened Naughty Jack, and whilst the location of the festival is closely guarded, some clues may be found in the song Dr Tom's Farm. He has recently performed (accompanying fellow artists) at the Shepherd's Bush Empire and the Tartan Heart festival as well as live on Charlie Gillet's BBC radio show.
After a decade of musical exploration, a week of solitude, a snowed in house in the Peak District and one bottle of Laphroaig was all it took to put down the bones of his richly-flavoured debut album. The album was mixed at Miloco Studios by Finn Eiles (The Kooks, Razorlight, Klaxons) and mastered on the Isle of Skye by Denis Blackham. With all the warmth and honesty one might expect from a preacher's son, Naughty Jacks first offering is brimming with sweet, bluesy dobro licks and worldly inflections.
"If I made compilation of the tracks that inspired me to write each song, it would be my favourite record. And I think that's how it should be." contemplates Adam in an attempt to map out the origins of Good Times. "There'd be some Tom Waits, The Band and Townes Van Zandt set alongside Hawaiian guitarist, Sol Hoopii and New Orleans pianist, Professor Longhair, definitely some Howlin' Wolf and a gospel song by Nina Simone."
Whilst the guitar, vocals and dobro are all played by the man himself on the album, his touring band of very fine musicians, on double bass, guitar and fiddle give an extra lift for a instantly appealing festival act.
The title track, Good Times, lays out Naughty Jack's manifesto for the album -
"I know where you're going to be / In the sunshine talking with me / Still sitting around when the sun goes down / Pour another drink and raise our glasses to the Good Times"
Podcasts/Radio Playing Naughty Jack
FolkCast favourite tracks of the year Phil Widdows and Ken Nicol on Whiskey Song - "I love the dobro playing... that's good playing it's lovely. I love the hook... the voice has a lot of character, a lovely groove"
Murphy's Bar Podcast Murphy on Everybody - "That's such tasty stuff, I can't wait until the album's out."
Unwind
Anji Bee on Good Times - "I am feeling so chilled y'all"
Outlaw Punk Cowboy Show
Bubba on Whiskey Song - "As you can tell, he's pretty talented on the dobro"
The BellRays headline a night of maximum rock'n'soul on Thursday next week at The Borderline with Los Chicos and King Salami & The Cumberland 3 playing live and Corn Rocket Club DJs on the wheels of steel.
Other forthcoming NTSOBC action:
July
Thrs 9 BellRays + Los Chicos + King Salami & The Cumberland 3 @ Borderline, London, W1 Thrs 16 Micheal Sheehy & The Hired Mourners + Gemma Ray @ The Lexington, London, N1 Thrs 23 O’Death @ The 100 Club, London, W1
September
Friday 11 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6 Saturday 12 T-Model Ford @ The Luminaire, London, NW6 Tues 15 Bob Log III @ The Luminaire, Kilburn, London, NW6
Tickets for all NTSOBC shows available from www.wegottickets.com and www.ticketweb.co.uk
The Kittiwakes - CD Launch - Clerkenwell 22nd June
Leigh-on-Sea 3-piece, The Kittiwakes, celebrate the release of their Midwich Records debut, ‘Lofoten Calling’, a collection of original folk songs written about the people, landscape, folklore and history of the Lofoten Islands above the Arctic Circle and influenced by the traditional music of Norway and the British Isles.
'The Kittiwakes craft timeless and magical acoustically dappled folk treats - gentle and alluring ostensibly Gaelic in sound texture and gorgeously flighty braided as they are by corteges of mandolins, accordions and violins.' [LOSING TODAY]
'The Kittiwakes (rissa tridactyla): delicious, intriguing and evocative music, beautifully played and sung by this talented trio. Recommended to twitchers and lovers of folk music alike' [LEIGH FOLK FESTIVAL]
See http://www.electroacousticclub.com for details of the venue etc
Rhythm Festival 2009
21-23 August
Twinwood Arena, Clapham, Beds, MK41 6AB
The Proclaimers, Alabama 3, Gandalf Murphy & The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, The Beat, Terry Reid, Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers, James Hunter, Alvin Youngblood Hart, The Blow Monkeys, Pentangle, The Strawbs, Martin Turner’s Wishbone Ash and LOADS more...
http://www.rhythmfestival.net
Just to let you know I've launched a new website: www.StressFreePrint.co.uk. If you get a sec, please take a look around and let me know what you think. As always, give me a shout if you need any leaflets, flyers or posters to promote your gigs. As a thank you for being my Myspace friend, I'll knock 15 quid off your next order... just enter the voucher code 'myspace' when ordering. Hope I can help you out sometime.
Nice Trax. Thankyou for being a friend of New Translation. We invite you to check out our new funk tracks Find A Home & Looking Back At it All. Drop by anytime and say hello. Keep up the great work. Cheers Shaun M
Dan & Dave’s new venture - Long Trick – have just come out of the studio. Listen to the first three rough mixes at www.myspace.com/longtrickmusic . More should go up in the next week or two – best still to come !!
I recently visited, and performed for the troops in Iraq! If you follow on the link, below, you can download an EXCLUSIVE track for FREE from my album ‘Live From Iraq.’ Support the troops!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uzkh5v
I’m currently in the UK touring right now; all upcoming dates are listed on my MySpace page, so if I’m in a town near you, pop down and say hello
Happy New Year (a bit late I know... sorry!) Cheers for your friendship in 2008. All the best for 09. As always, let me know if I can help you out with any leaflets, flyers or posters to promote your gigs. If you place an order, just menion you're one of my Myspace friends and I'll knock 15 quid off the cost. Check out my website for prices and more info: www. StressFreePrint. co. uk. Take care, Tom.
Happy New Year (a bit late I know... sorry!) Cheers for your friendship in 2008. All the best for 09. As always, let me know if I can help you out with any leaflets, flyers or posters to promote your gigs. If you place an order, just menion you're one of my Myspace friends and I'll knock 15 quid off the cost. Check out my website for prices and more info: www. StressFreePrint. co. uk. Take care, Tom.
Cheers for the friendship. Hope everything's going OK. Let me know if I can help you out with any leaflets or flyers to promote your gigs. Check out my flyer printing website for prices and more info: www.StressFreePrint.co.uk. Just mention 'Myspace' when you place an order and I'll knock 15 quid off the cost. Hope I can help you out sometime. Take care, Tom.
Bit of promotional spamming here. sorry. shameless, I know. but hopefully at least of interest. BY THE WAY, have you heard Samuel James? Fucking great new US bluesman. reckon you'd like.
TUESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 7.30pm downstairs @ the Corner Store, Covent Garden
playing live:
CAROLINE WEEKS www.myspace.com/carolineweeks Caroline plays as part of the backing group for the Mercury Music Prize-nominated Bat For Lashes. Currently on tour supporting Radiohead, she has recorded a solo album, to be released later this year. Her songs are witchy, folky and strange. Starker ’n’ darker than BFL, her nocturnal spookery will appeal to anyone who digs Josephine Foster, Joanna Newsom or Shirley Collins.
NIGEL OF BERMONDSEY www.myspace.com/nigelofbermondsey Nigel used to play bass in the indie band Gay Dad. His songs take all the best bits of American 70s pop – think Lou Reed, Neil Young, Crosby Stills & Nash – and add a peculiarly English indie bedsit melancholy. He is indeed from Bermondsey.
MATT MILTON www.myspace.com/matthewradmoremilton Brixton blues and folk with stream-of-consciousness lyrics about climate change. He used to play keyboards for Simple Kid. He used to play fiddle for bluegrass psychopath Rod Stern. He worries a lot.
£3 (yes, just £3 – we’re practically paying you to attend) The Corner Store is at 33 Wellington St, Covent Garden, WC2E 7BN 5 mins from Covent Garden or Charing Cross or Embankment or Temple tube stations; or you could take any one of about a million buses.
eiiiii, lot of time since our last message!!! I've launched my first CD Release named POLARIS so If you like it you could buy it on: http://store.consouling.be/product_info.php?products_id=70&osCsid=c8e5ca0897528e2c8af67cd087cab1a0 OR http://www.conspiracyrecords.com/store/store_detail. php?id=6695
Hear ye, hear ye friends. Calling all ye faithful and faithless, the Big Hand debut album is finally here and set to dazzle upon the main stage of life! Yes, its set for release, and its gonna blow your socks off.........
............ 14 tracks of the finest sparkling soulful zorbic ska ever heard for just ten little pounds, just a click to the left there. Get yourselves the remedy for the April showers, reach out through the ether and get yourself one today. Go on, you know you want to!
10pm (BST) Saturday 12th April on Nessmp3.com Live Radio Medicine Show A special broadcast of
Adam Levy @ The Riverside Tavern details The Medicine Show presents Adam Levy Sings http://www.nessmp3.com/music/adamlevy http://www.medicinemusic.co.uk
Adam comes out of the shadows of his longtime cohort Norah Jones to sing and play for us Live from a Highland hostelry on his first solo Euro tour.
hey everyone, we're heading back to the black gardenia this monday to celebrate our upcoming 2nd anniversary and the impending release of pete greenwoods penny dreadful, the first release on the brand new redbricks recordings label.
don't miss out!
there's been a slight change of line up, ain will be playing on monday now with john stammers playing on the 28th..
Listen to Naughty Jack's live session for the James Whale Show on TalkSport. The hour long session has been edited down to 30mins with 4 songs and lots of conversation. The show went out live on Sunday 6th April 2008 on TalkSport, the UK's largest commercial radio station.
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